Mike Wallace Quotes

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high school in John Kelly's neighborhood. I know the neighborhood John Kelly comes from, I know the culture.

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.

'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.

Shaz Khan and I, it turned out, went to school together in third grade.

I've lived in Croydon most of my life.

I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

I have some lifelong friends I grew up with.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.